Real-Time Reporting

Real-time and historical audience tuning information in a convenient web interface, with more radio-specific measurements, features and filters than any other streaming service, all powered by an intelligent calculation engine with deep and comprehensive data mining capabilities.

Automated Reporting

Automated report generation means no more repetitive, time-consuming tasks for busy radio station digital departments. Just set it up once, create a distribution list and move on!

Strategic Insight

How has online tuning changed over the past year? And where is that growth coming from? Which apps are seeing pick-up with your audience, and which platforms? Our dashboard view provides at-a-glance insights into the kinds of trends decision-makers need to guide growth.

Significance at a glance

This station has two noticeable spikes in it’s tuning curve (top image). They’re both important -insofar as each represents a time of day when tuning is higher- but one of them occurs every day, and the other does not. The PD Tool distinguishes between them at a glance (bottom image): the green line on the right marks a time with a statistically significant one-time spike in tuning. Can’t recall what the spike was? Just click on the graph to listen!

Station ‘listen-to-win’ promo

The PD Tool compares each minute of the day to the expected historical value for that minute on that day of the week for that station. If there is a significant spike or drop in tuning the graph turns green or red at that point. We don’t even bother with a scale on the Y axis: it’s not about how many people listen – that’s the job of your ratings service – it’s about whether tuning is higher or lower than usual… and this stations ‘listen-to-win promo is definitely driving tune-in’s!

How did the launch go?

This station had an under-performing noon hour show. Of course the PD didn’t need the PD Tool to know that, but she did use it to demonstrate the need for change and then, right after launch, as an early indicator of a positive result. And ultimately that outcome was reflected in the ratings.

Standard in our players

auto-provisioning of the right stream for the listeners operating system to minimize stream-load times: AAC, MP3 or HLS,

auto-detection of the browser, to check if Flash is installed,

auto-diagnostics in our Help link, to minimize the need for time consuming back-and-forth with listeners who have issues (and there will always be listeners with issues),

song and artist info, because over 50% of listeners still learn about new music from radio,

custom-skinned backgrounds, because it’s about your brand.

GameDay is an all-in-one sports audio player and event scheduler:

Dynamic canvas: the background image automatically adjusts to the currently live or next upcoming sport.

Dynamic countdown & live mode: in countdown mode the player counts down time left until the next game, dynamically switching to live mode at game time.

Upcoming games: Up to 14 upcoming games are listed, with start times displayed in the time zone of the viewer.

Simultaneous streams: up to three streams can be delivered at a time.

Auto-archiving: Games are posted to the player the minute a broadcast completes, and archived in HLS for fast loading and scrubbing.

Scheduling: An intuitive calendar-based scheduler allows admins to add games from minutes to months in advance, or connect the calendar directly to your athletics departments RSS feed for automated scheduling.

Device detection: auto-detection of the listeners device means the player renders an appropriate desktop or mobile web version.

Field-level controls: mobile controls allow admins to schedule, resume and end games remotely.

The beauty of ‘set and forget’ content creation

Live2Go completely automates the creation of recurring content like weather, traffic and news updates. Want to post ‘traffic on the ones’ to your player? It’s effortless with Live2Go.

Precision auto-editor: metadata tags trigger pinpoint-accurate start and end times for clips, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual editing,

Flexible rules engine: set up hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or more complex recurrences, use time or metadata-based – or hybrid – start and end-time triggers, and mange it all directly with a click via easy-to-use dropdowns.

Comprehensive user permissions: fully integrated within the leanStream SSO portal, Live2Go permissions can be set by user across any number of stations in your group.

Delivery: Automated posting to your web site via RSS.

Connect

Stations and brands with online audiences

Engage

Listeners with relevant content

Deliver

Rock-solid performance

leanStream is a digital audio company dedicated to serving broadcasters and advertisers around the world.

Our mission is to help our clients take full advantage of the potential of streaming audio as a source of audience engagement and a precision tool to connect audiences with advertisers.

Connect

Tools that unleash streaming’s potential as a source for audience insights and revenue.

Advertiser Solutions

Programmatic audio advertising for brands on music streaming apps, podcasts and online radio stations.

Programmatic Audio for Agencies & Trading Desks

Access the largest audio ad network in the Canadian marketplace with the power of Adwave Canada publisher inventory and Deal ID’s or connect to apply for your own self-serve instance. We are integrated with all major DSP’s.

Advertisers, visit our audio ad team at:

Connect

Radio stations & music streaming apps generate hundreds of millions of measurable engagements with listeners each and every week! leanStream tools turn streaming sessions into audience insights. At a glance.

Knowledge is Power

Business leaders need audience information to build strategy, and radio stations need it to build engagement. leanStream Analytics mines the wealth of data that streaming provides, creating actionable information from massive datasets.

The Value of Immediacy

Now more than ever, competitive advantage comes to those who can adapt, and quickly. The PD Tool offers instant feedback on your how audience behaves as programming changes. And because streaming trends reflect over-the-air trends, what you see in your stream today may well show up in the ratings next month.

Engage

We believe listening online should be as easy as listening to the radio.

Elegantly Simple

The first priority of a streaming audio player is to play wherever and whenever your listeners want, so we minimize the unnecessary animations and widgets that just reduce compatibility and increase load times. We stick to the features we know make a difference:

Pssst: Want to use your own player? No problem, we’ll provide recommendations and work with your team to integrate it into our system. We just can’t provide ongoing support or guarantee it’ll work as well, or across as many platforms.

Game Day!

It’s the ultimate audio player for your team, fans and athletics department! GameDay counts down to your next broadcast then automatically switches to play-by-play mode, streams up to 3 events simultaneously and auto-posts every game to your player the minute it’s completed.

Live2Go

Radio has great content that listeners want to access at their convenience. Sourcing, editing and posting that content has distracted valuable, and increasingly time-starved, radio personnel from the job at hand, until now.

Live2Go completely automates the creation and posting of On Demand content for radio: simply schedule it one-time in our intuitive dashboard and get on with your day!

Delivery

Rock-solid delivery of mission-critical services.

Delivery

We learned early on that there are real advantages to building a dedicated CDN for radio broadcasters, so we’ve built the key pieces of our CDN from the ground up to maximize flexibility and adaptability.

Trusted Brands Trust Us

Including…

Real Support. Real People.

We know what it’s like to need support, and we treat you as we would like to be treated. With a hands-on support team manned by people who truly care, it’s no wonder that some of our best reviews are about our amazing support.

San Mateo, CA, March 15, 2016 — AdsWizz, the leading technology provider of advertising solutions for the digital audio market, announced today the expansion of AdWave, the largest global digital audio marketplace, into Canada.

Working with AdsWizz to help facilitate sales to advertisers and their agencies will be Media Sales Lab, one of Canada’s fastest-growing media sales agencies focused on innovative media offerings in broadcast, audio, digital and influencer marketing.

Under terms of the deal, Media Sales Lab’s sales team will sell AdWave inventory to Canadian advertisers, capitalizing on the large Canadian digital audio audience.

AdWave enables advertisers to deliver targeted audio ads tailored to listeners’ locations, listening devices, demographic categories and other profile elements in the USA, Europe, LATAM, APAC and now Canada. With this partnership, AdsWizz and Media Sales Lab are enabling advertisers to easily reach Canadian audiences across premium radio and music streaming brands.

“We are fully committed to the development of digital audio sales in Canada as a new source of revenue for broadcasters and high-value inventory placements for advertisers,” said Chris Nimigon, President of Media Sales Lab.

Several of Canada’s leading advertising agencies, including IPG Mediabrands, say they plan to use AdWave.

“Consumers’ media usage is not static, it’s incredibly dynamic” said David McDonald, VP, Director of Radio Investments at IPG Mediabrands. “Radio is no longer the sole vehicle delivering music, information and audio messaging. As smart phone usage increases and they become personal multi-media devices, we have to become as dynamic to reach our targets. This opportunity allows us to extend reach and position audio commercials on that increasingly relevant, personal platform.”

“Our job is to provide the tools and services that deliver broadcasters audio content to their online audiences, and to take full advantage of the potential of digital delivery by connecting those audiences to advertisers with an unprecedented degree of precision” said David Huszar, leanStream President. “The combination of AdWave and Media Sales Lab is a powerful new tool for broadcasters and advertisers. We’re very excited to help launch this initiative to Canada.”

“AdsWizz is thrilled to partner with Media Sales Lab and leanStream, leaders in the Canadian radio industry, to harness the large and growing digital audio audience,” said Alexis van de Wyer, AdsWizz CEO. “The combination of AdWave’s reach in Canada, Media Sales Lab’s expertise in radio advertising sales, and leanStream’s rapidly growing list of Canadian streaming clients will generate tremendous value for both publishers and Canadian advertisers.”

“Through these new partnerships, AdsWizz is well-positioned to develop the next generation of digital audio advertising solutions to help Canadian publishers and advertisers capitalize on the growing market in Canada,” van de Wyer added.

About AdsWizz

AdsWizz is a leading global technology provider of advertising solutions for the digital radio and audio industries. Its server-side solutions and global audio ad exchange offers advertisers unique targeting capabilities and provide audio publishers powerful new ways to monetize their listenership. This has led AdsWizz to quickly become a go-to resource for many of the world’s most prominent advertising agencies and digital audio publishers.

About Media Sales Lab

Media Sales Lab is one of Canada’s fastest growing media sales agencies and represents innovative media offerings in broadcast, audio, digital and influencer marketing with broadcasters and advertisers across Canada.

About leanStream

leanStream is Canada’s premiere radio streaming solutions company, serving professional broadcasters across the country and in the US, Europe and Asia on a state of the art delivery network with rock solid reliability and powerful monetization, audience-insight and productivity tools.

Toronto, Canada — May 1, 2016

leanStream adds Nielsen Player SDK Certification to its suite of player features

leanStream, a leading streaming solutions provider for radio broadcasters, has strengthened its commitment to the evolution of online audience measurement through the integration of Nielsen’s player SDK into the leanPlayer and GameDay web and mobile players.

Nielsen’s certification of the software integration confirms leanStream’s hybrid HTML5 players as a verified source of vital end-user listener analytics. The addition of Nielsen’s SDK allows Nielsen subscribers to unify analytics across linear and digital platforms, measuring the extension of broadcast radio to streaming environments.

“leanStream is very pleased to be able to contribute to Nielsen’s Total Audience initiative,” according to David Huszar, Business Lead for leanStream. “With radio’s audiences listening to their favourite stations across more platforms and devices all the time, the need for unified cross-platform reporting grows increasingly urgent. At leanStream we believe that the audio stream can be a valuable source of audience insight, and initiatives like this, driven by global performance management leaders like Nielsen, are the key to realizing that value.”

leanPlayer is a cloud-based audio player built to maximize playability, auto-detecting device, browser and OS to seamlessly deliver HTML5 or Flash versions in AAC, MP3 or HLS, making listening online as easy as listening to the radio.

GameDay is the audio player of choice for some of the NCAA’s leading Division 1 teams, delivering up to 3 simultaneous live event streams that auto-post at game end, seamlessly switching from Live Broadcast to On Demand mode, counting down to the next scheduled broadcast while hosting full HLS-coded audio archives.

About leanStream

leanStream is Canada’s premiere radio streaming solutions company, serving professional broadcasters across the country and in the US, Europe and Asia on a state of the art delivery network with rock solid reliability and powerful monetization, audience-insight and productivity tools.

Toronto, —December 13, 2016

Newcap Radio Selects leanStream for Audio Streaming Services

leanStream, Canada’s premiere radio streaming solutions company, today announced that Newcap Radio, Canada’s largest pure-play radio company , has selected leanStream to deliver its audio streaming content. Through this partnership, Newcap will use leanStream’s state-of the-art delivery network and tools to deliver their market-leading radio stations audio content to millions of listeners across the country.

“The team at Newcap Radio is proud to be working with leanStream to digitally deliver our audio brands into the ears of listeners around the world,” said Steve Jones, Newcap’s VP/Brands & Content. “Our partnership with leanStream means that our listeners today and into the future will enjoy the highest level of audio quality and most reliable level of service, along with the cutting edge in audio streaming.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Newcap and honoured to provide them with the platform and services they need to deliver their award-winning content to audiences across the country” said David Huszar, leanStream President. “Newcap is an audio innovator and a true radio company and we’re excited to work with a team that are as passionate about the audio space as they are”.

Through this new partnership, leanStream continues to expand its coverage in Canada, reliably streaming tens of millions of sessions to listeners from St. John’s to Vancouver each month, and is taking a leading role in the development of next-generation digital audio solutions on behalf of Canadian radio broadcasters and listeners.

About leanStream

leanStream is Canada’s premiere radio streaming solutions company, serving professional broadcasters across this country and in the US, Europe and Asia on a state-of-the-art delivery network with rock solid reliability and powerful monetization, audience-insight and productivity tools.

About Newcap Radio

Newcap Radio is one of Canada’s leading radio broadcasters with 95 licenses across Canada. The Company reaches millions of listeners each week through a variety of formats and is a recognized industry leader in radio programming, sales and networking. The Company’s portfolio of radio assets includes 80 FM and 15 AM licences which can be heard throughout Canada.

Toronto, — July 10, 2017

Digital audio companies leanStream and Media Sales Lab announced that they have merged into a single entity. The company will combine the audio ad network of Media Sales Lab with leanStream’s global audio streaming network of more than 400 radio stations. The merger is effective as of June 1 and the new business will retain the name leanStream. The new leanStream will offer a single source for publishers and advertisers to help them connect with online audiences.

“We are thrilled to join forces with Media Sales Lab, as this merger presents significant new value to our customers,” said David Huszar, president of leanStream and the new company’s chief operating officer. “Now, in addition to providing premium streaming services we can begin to help our customers fulfill the promise of digital audio as a source of one-to-one revenue creation.”

“We are fully committed to the development of digital audio sales as a source of revenue for broadcasters, music streaming services, podcasters, and high-value audio inventory placements for advertisers,” said Chris Nimigon, president of Media Sales Lab and chief revenue officer of the new company. “The merger with leanStream provides us with shared resources and powerful new tools to better serve our customers and advertisers needs.”

Media Sales Lab was responsible for producing the inaugural Digital Audio Advertising North Summit in Canada. Now, leanStream will be presenting DAAN. RAIN founder and AccuRadio CEO Kurt Hanson is giving the keynote speech at the free event. DAAN is scheduled for July 11 in Toronto.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting DAAN 2017 Digital Audio Advertising North Summit in Canada,” Nimigon told RAIN News. “The audio market is developing in Canada and this is a great chance to learn more from industry leaders like Kurt Hanson, hear research from Nielsen, and to gain valuable advertiser and agency perspectives on the digital audio space. We are looking forward to a great first event!”

Toronto, — November 1, 2018

DAX Acquires the Digital Audio Sales division of leanStream

On November 1 2018 the digital audio sales division of leanStream was acquired by DAX, the world’s most sophisticated digital audio advertising platform.

David Huszar, Chief Operating Officer of leanStream said: “With the demand for digital audio content accelerating in Canada the timing was right for us to give digital audio advertisers access to the sophisticated targeting and attribution tools DAX offers.”

leanStream continues in its role serving professional broadcasters around the world on a state-of-the-art content delivery network, enabling audio publishers to take full advantage of the opportunities streaming media offer with rock solid reliability and powerful monetization, audience-insight and productivity tools.

David adds “We are proud of the role that leanStream has played in the development of the digital audio advertising market in Canada, and we’re very excited to see this market continue to grow through the leadership of DAX and their new team in Canada.”